I've found many references to this while googling around, but no definite
answers. I'm wanting to get the refering page information in a perl/cgi
script and base the flow of the script on it. That is, if the request is
from a refering page that is 'authorized', the script continues on with it'
On Friday 08 August 2003 00:13, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> No you don't. Referer is easily spoofed, sometimes stripped, and
> sometimes wrong. You can log it, but only a fool would base a
> security mechanism around it.
Well, I'm certainly foolish enough without adding to it. So, does Perl of
On Friday 01 August 2003 01:08, John W. Krahn wrote:
> You can use the LWP::UserAgent (or LWP::Simple which uses
> LWP::UserAgent) module which allows you to set a timeout value.
>
> perldoc LWP::UserAgent
Thank you John! It's certainly nice to be able to ask the gurus!
That's exactly what the d
Hello... I have written a small script that uses lynx to retrieve data from an
external web site, then parse and format parts of that data, finally writing
out a script for a java based application which displays the data on the
local web page. The perl script is called via an #exec cmd in the
